Opinions
Dear “fact-checkers”, date, time, precise geographical location doesn’t matter, radical Islamic terrorism is still radical Islamic terrorism
People are sharing information, images and videos not because they are a part of some political campaign against the Taliban, not because they don't want the Taliban to win the next elections in Afghanistan or they just don't want to vote for them (as if that was even an option). They are sharing images and videos because they are scared.
News Reports
Dadra and Nagar Haveli: RSS Swayamsevaks, freedom struggle against the Portuguese and the story of ‘one-day Prime Minister’
Armed RSS Swayamsevaks had participated in the liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The Portuguese were made to surrender and DNH was declared independent in August 2, 1954.
Culture and History
Rathayatra special: The story of the wedding of a princess from the South and the Gajapati of Kalinga
On the day of the Rathayatra, the Gajapati ruler of Kalinga becomes a sweeper for one day when the emperor sweeps the chariot of Mahaprabhu with a golden handled broom as his servant.
Opinions
‘You natives, be grateful that your children died as Christians, not pagans’: American Conservative magazine tells indigenous people in Canada
The article goes on to defend the residential school system altogether. It actually asserts that 'it was necessary to convert native people into Christianity because otherwise, "their souls could not have been saved."
News Reports
Exclusive details from SC audit panel report: How AAP’s political drama kept loaded oxygen tankers waiting, created supply crunch for other states
In a PESO study, average daily consumption was found to be between 282 MT to 372 MT and Delhi had no adequate storage facilities for 700 Mts of LMO that was demanded at that time.
World
Unit 731: The horrors of biological warfare experiments that the world forgot
Unit 731 was the name of the Imperial Japanese Army's covert biological and chemical warfare division.
Variety
When Paris was overwhelmed with decomposed human corpses and ran out of burial places: The story of the Catacombs
The Catacombs of Paris are the image of a scary world of the dead beneath the city of lights. Six to seven million human skeletons are stored there, stacked up in underground tunnels.
Opinions
Manoj Das the storyteller: Alive forever, in a million smiles and a million memories
How does something as insignificant, and as regular as death binds a writer who is alive in a thousand stories.
Fact-Check
Congress’ attack against Covishield continues, now spreads fake news of ‘one vaccine, 3 rates’ from official Twitter handle
The previous low price was a part of SII's commitment to GOI and some other countries for sharing the risk of production. After the current 'under contract' 110 million doses are delivered, SII will sell to GOI at Rs 400 per dose, same as states.
Opinions
Breathing oxygen? Thank a tree hugger in Aarey forest
As media reports started going oxygen, oxygen, oxygen in the last few days, the 'liberals' recalled their primary school science lessons.
